The Arizona sentinel., 1887-10-29
FOREIGN eoSSiP.

--Befere the century is out it is esti- mated that London will have a popu- lation of 1000, GOO
 The Celtic language is spoken by nearly $40, 900 people in Ireland, 64 GOO of whom can speak no other
 A Berlin company offers electrici- ty for boiling water, and other heat ing purposes as well as for lighting.
 In the agricultural districts around the city of Zacatecas laborer gets 57t cents daily, The hours of labor are from sunrise to sunset
 -Chili is likely to prove an impor- tant source of borax. Analyses made by Chilian and English chemists indi- cate that the crude borax of that coun- try can probably be made to yield as good a product as the borax of Cali tornia.-M r Ledqer
 The extraordinary supply of grouse in London on the first day the shoo t. ing law was up is now accounted for by the information that the grouse had been kept for ten months in ice cellars at temperature of 2S deg. They were very much relished.
 The recent discovery of several val uable springs of different mineral wa 1erS in Costa Rica has caused the gov ernment to issue a decree declaring all such to be the property of the State, and ordering that in future none shall be transferred to private ownership.
 Young men clad in the garments formerly worn by students have been numerous in the streets of Os aka, Japan, lately. They lecture in out-of- the-way corners, and even in crowded streets when no constables are at hand. upon political subjects, and ire quen1y urge the doctrine that ''official salaries are the life blood of the peo- pie"
 An old Prussian law provides for the annual distribution of prizes amounting to fifteen and twenty marks to such physicians and sanitary officials as shall have attempted, whether successfully or not the re- suscitation of apparently dead persons. In the last four years eighty-iive such prizes were awarded, the number of those cases in which the attempted rcsuscitation was successful being twenty-six.
 The desert of Sahara is slowly be- coming inhabitable with the aid of science. The lower Sahara is an inn mense basin of artesian waters, and the French are form ing fresh oases with skill and success, so that the number of cultivated tracts is increas- ing rapidly. After period of thirty years forty-three oases have 13. 900 in- habitan's s, 10000 trees between one and seven years old, and 100, 900 fruit trees.
 The Prussian army list for 1887 contains 2 field marshals, the Crown Prince and Count Moltke; 59 cavalry and infantry generals, 76 lieutenant generals and 117 major-generals. The cavalry staff consists of 55 colOnels, 38 lieutenant-colonels and 2O6 majors, and in the infantry staff there are 161 colOnels, 172 lieutenant cOlonels and 700 majors. The number of officers shows an increase of 66 as compared with last year.
 A quaint old bridge has been found in the River Glen at Spalding, Lincoln shire, where the river bed was being deepened for the construction of a new bridge. Local tradition declared that bridge had existed there many years back. and had been washed away by storm, and now the lost structure itself has been unearthed five feet below the bed of the stream. It was chiefly constructed of carved stones from the Spalding Monastery, pulled down in 1537. and numbers of carved coffin-lids and other relics were lying close by.